"Users submit their design in digital form, after which Shapeways's software checks it over to ensure that it can be made. Shapeways then passes the design to its production line of polymer printers, delivering the tangible object within 10 days of ordering, with prices typically between $50 and $150."

Shapeway is the company and they made this video demonstrating the process:

7.24.2008

"Crowded classes taught by part-time faculty could be awaiting college students at many of the state's public institutions if proposed budget cuts go forward."

"The state's 35 public colleges and universities have submitted fiscal 2009 budget plans that slash 5 percent — $115 million — from the university system's $2.3 billion annual budget"

"The University of Georgia proposed cuts totaling $20 million. UGA would make some of its biggest cuts by decreasing operating expenses, delaying an IT upgrade, for example, and in by eliminating vacant positions. "

The Wolfsonian Museum, in Miami, approached me to design a poster for their show “Thoughts on Democracy.” They asked the designers involved to take 4 classic Norman Rockwell posters and reinterpret them for today. The show opened last week and will be up until late Fall.

The New York Times had a big review of the show, in which Elliott’s poster was featured prominently—mine unfortunately received no mention, but I am a “no name” so…

7.10.2008

It's a weird story, but also what interests me about it is the tone of the piece: more exploratory than argumentative.

It could almost be fake too, there are only the photos that the officer has on his computer screen that picture a dead rabbit...makes me think about the parody model of the Onion, but less obvious and blantant. The Onion is nearly immediately realized by anyone that it is supposed to be funny, but doing a fake news story that's kind of story-book like (as vague as that is) in tone could be interesting. Like in the Royal Tenenbaums, the fake sports illustrated cover and sports broadcast with Ritchie Tenenbaum having a nervous breakdown on the tennis court - funny, odd, humanistic.

7.09.2008

"In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit, and timeless message."

New York Times article says "in many ways 'Dancing' is an almost perfect piece of Internet art: it’s short, pleasingly weird and so minimal in its content that it’s open to a multitude of interpretations. It could be a little commercial for one-world feel-goodism."

7.07.2008

So, I've been in the lab the last couple weeks gettin gritty with some technolojeez, and here's the first results,, see the hd internet version at http://vimeo.com/1288810 or download a true 720p version from my site